<div dir="ltr"><div>I'd be interested in helping out at CHM in the future, and also fronting buying some cool kits for people. Anybody have suggestions for places that have good kits, or specific kits they've had good luck with?<br>
<br></div>-a<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Liz Henry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lizhenry@gmail.com" target="_blank">lizhenry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Johny Radio,<br><br>That is how I started doing CHM when Mitch, Rolf, or Miloh weren't able to do it. People would show up from out of town kind of excited and want to do stuff.� So I would sell them kits either that I stocked up on myself, or from Mitch's stash of kits, and show them how to solder and go through the instructions. Simple enough.� Nearly everyone who shows up has a smartphone at least to look up the kit instructions.� <br>
<br>It is not too hard to mobilize others in the space to help lay out some soldering irons and equipment on Monday afternoon.� <br><br>When we run out of solder, which we do often, you can take up a collection to buy new solder. I have in the past restocked the solder and other equipment. It is best to buy a big roll but in a pinch just go by Radio Shack.� <a href="http://www.mpja.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mpja.com/</a> is good for buying solder in bulk.�� <br>
<br>People sometimes will buy one kit and take turns doing the bits of it.
So you don't even need that many kits to start off with.� If you don't
have the money to lay out for $20 kits you can find cheaper, but less
exciting ones. I really liked having the Maker Faire robot badges since
they are cheap and easy and give people a taste of what is possible. The
last batch I got of them for the Burton High kids were not as good for
explaining circuits though because the instruction sticker covers the
printed circuit, so you don't see that it is one continuous wire printed
on the board.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I never asked Noisebridge to buy the CHM equipment, but sometimes took up collections around for specific needs (like the solder).���� As long as you have solder, and you can access and properly track the kits already in the space, you can run CHM without having any capital up front.� I don't think that $10 a month is going to help you.� Batteries are in the kits!�� Write the kits down on a paper and put it in the plastic tubs then email Mitch which ones people bought and paypal him the money, or get together with someone who can do it.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Most of the irons could use a cleaning with tip tinner and those metal brillo things.� There are a bunch of extra tips in the red metal bin on wheels. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you get a lot of people coming to CHM, it is really helpful to sort out who has ever soldered before, and pair them up sitting near the people who haven't, so they can be helpful!<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- Liz<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Johny Radio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnyradio@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnyradio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi, <br>
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there are about 5 peeps here at da Bridge for Circuit Hacking
Monday, including a nice lady and her kids visiting from Alaska.
They wanna hack. <br>
Is somebody leading this?<br>
I would run it, but we don't even have known working batteries
(well, i asked the membership for $10/month for circuit stuff, but
no go). <br>
Anyway, is somebody doing Circuit Hacking Monday tonite?<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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